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Number 8 Dubbo Crash In April 2012, two vehicles were involved
in a drag race gone wrong on Brisbane Street, in Dubbo, Australia.
One was a Holden Statesman and the other a Mitsubishi FTO.
Both vehicles were driven by men in their early 20s.
As they sped along the street, they reached a rise on the stretch of the road, known by
residents as a portion where accidents frequently happened.
Both drivers independently lost control of their vehicles.
The Statesman hit a tree on private property while the Mitsubishi clipped an electric pole
before hitting another tree, in the adjoining property.
The driver of the Mitsubishi was ejected 16 feet from his vehicle and landed on the road.
He was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
The noise of the impact woke up the couple inside the house, who discovered the FTO pinned
against a tree in their front yard.
Neighbors compared the scene to that of a bomb site.
The driver of the Statesman was pronounced dead at the scene.
There was also a passenger inside the vehicle, a 19-year-old male, who suffered severe neck
injuries.
Two other young men had reportedly gotten out of the vehicles, before the drag race
started.
According to one of the residents, the two of them kept talking about not wanting to
go to one of their friends’ funeral.
Number 7 Accident in North Little Rock 12-year-old Aniya Dilworth was killed in June
2018, in what the police believe was an illegal race.
Aniya’s father, Michael Lynn Scales, was driving a Ford Crown Victoria racing against
a maroon Ford Mustang, driven by Brandon Rogers.
The two men were driving at a high speed down Riverfront Drive, in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
At some point, without any consideration that his daughter was in the car with him, Scales
swerved into the Mustang, striking it on the side.
Rogers also had a child in the vehicle with him, an 11-year-old boy.
The impact caused both drivers to lose control of their vehicles.
They struck several trees and street signs before the Crown Victoria hit a pole so hard
that it was torn in half.
Aniya was the only fatality in the accident, while the others sustained serious injuries.
Both drivers were arrested and charged with child endangerment as well as street racing.
Additionally, Scales was charged with manslaughter.
This wasn’t the first run-in with the law for either of them.
Rogers’ criminal record included selling stolen aluminum, a carjacking, as well as
drug-trafficking and firearm charges.
Scales’ criminal history is even darker.
In 2009, he and his cousin took part in a robbery, in which a man was fatally shot.
Scales then hid the gun used by his cousin in the murder.
He later testified against him, in return for a reduced sentence but still went to prison.
In fact, he was on parole at the time of the accident that claimed his daughter’s life.
Number 6 San Bernardino Accident A high-speed drag race in San Bernardino,
California, ended in tragedy, in the spring of 2016 but no names were released to the
public.
Their vehicles were clocked at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour and part of the street
race was captured by surveillance cameras.
At about 3:15 pm, the driver in the lead car lost control of the vehicle and crashed into
a light pole.
The impact was so severe that it almost tore the car in half, before it burst into flames.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
The mangled vehicle came to a rest in the parking lot of E. Neil Roberts Elementary.
The extent of the tragedy could have been far greater but, fortunately, the school was
closed for spring break.
Number 5 Tragic Race in Chatsworth An illegal street race turned tragic in LA’s
Chatsworth neighborhood, after a car plowed into a crowd of over 60 people.
The collision occurred in a commercial area, known for illegal street racing.
In the pre-planned event, 21-year-old Henry Michael Gevorgyan lost control of the Ford
Mustang he was driving, which was described by the authorities as ‘very powerful’.
The car swerved to a sidewalk, striking those who’d gathered to watch the race.
Two spectators were fatally injured, while another was left in serious condition.
The crowd had dispersed by the time the police arrived on the scene.
Gevorgyan fled as well.
The police began their search for him and are seeking to bring murder charges against
him.
Bill Bustos, the LAPD’s lead detective on the case, said during a press conference ‘Please
turn yourself in, it’s just a matter of time before we get to you’.
Number 4 Crash in Massachusetts In May 2018, 27-year-old Matthew Peter, driving
his father’s Subaru Forester, challenged Michael Luddington’s GMC pickup in an impromptu
street race.
Both vehicles were driven at high speed on the residential Plain Street, in Stoughton,
Massachusetts.
Luddington lost control of his vehicle and crashed it into a tree.
His fiancée, mother-of-two Angie Goodrich, was in the car as well.
Both of them died on impact as Peter sped away.
Then, several months later, the police retrieved a video that originated from Peter’s cellphone.
It showed that he was the one who’d initiated the race.
In the footage, he’s recording himself driving erratically and yelling at other cars before
engaging Luddington’s pickup.
When he tried to pull away, Peter reportedly can be heard saying ‘Oh, get back here’.
According to the police, he recorded the moment that Luddington’s car crashed.
He sent the video to his father 30 minutes later, who didn’t report it and was subsequently
charged with impeding an investigation.
Peter also sent a voice mail to his girlfriend, describing what he’d just seen.
According to court documents, he later sent her disturbing texts, blaming the couple for
the accident and saying that he wished he could revive them only to put them through
the pole again.
He then instructs her not to tell anyone about the crash.
Peter had a history of speeding violations and crashes.
The charges he faced after this included two homicide counts, speeding and using a mobile
phone while driving.
Number 3 Moreno Valley Freeway Crash Valentino Miguel Ramos and fiancée Airyana
Rubie Luna were the victims of a brutal car crash on the 60 Freeway, in California’s
Moreno Valley.
The accident took place in late summer of 2018.
They were in the backseat of a 1999 white BMW.
Three other people were present in the vehicle, including the driver, 21-year-old Polo Najera
Perez.
According to eyewitnesses, he was driving at a high speed, because he was racing two
other cars.
Perez lost control of the vehicle which crashed into the guardrail and flipped.
The sheer force of the impact ejected two passengers, while three others remained trapped
inside.
In the end, Ramos, Luna, Perez and the man in the front passenger seat were all killed
in the crash.
Luna was pregnant at the time.
Several days earlier, she and Ramos had just celebrated the baby shower of their unborn
son.
The only survivor was an unnamed 19-year-old man, who’d sustained serious injuries.
The cars that Perez had been racing with, a Honda Civic and a Mazda hatchback, fled
when the accident occurred.
Number 2 Ector County Accident Four lives were lost and a family was left
in shambles after a devastating accident, in Ector County, Texas.
On October 1, 2018, Albertico Valenzuela and Christian Flores were racing their Dodge Challengers
westbound on 16th Street.
Flores then lost control of his car and crashed into Valenzuela’s Challenger, sending it
towards the eastbound lanes.
It crashed into a Chevrolet Impala, with four people inside, 47-year-old Araceli Galbadon
and her children, 20-year-old Kassandra, 17-year-old Sergio, and 8-year-old Elias.
Galbadon and her daughter died at the scene, as did Christian Flores.
Galbadon’s youngest son died from injuries sustained in the accident, at the University
Medical Center, in Lubbock.
Her eldest son, Sergio, who was taken to the same hospital, was in a serious but stable
condition.
Number 1 Rowville Car Accident In February 2019, a suspected drag race gone
wrong in Rowville, east Melbourne, claimed the life of 17-year-old Nikkita Wells.
The teenager was in the backseat of a Holden, while her older sister was behind the wheel.
They were involved in a horrific three-car crash that sent one of the cars into an electric
pole, violently tearing it in half.
It’s believed that Wells’ sister lost control of their vehicle and careered into
another, after she’d been cut off.
5 people were taken to the hospital but Wells was the only recorded fatality.
Residents of the Rowville area claimed that they saw cars ‘flying’ down the road prior
to the crash.
The police believe that at least two of the cars were drag racing in broad daylight when
the accident occurred.
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